Krystyna23040
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2 (in remission!)
- Treatment type
- Diet only
I do agree that my post was ambiguous. I also agree that these are very interesting times and there's never been a better time to be diagnosed than now.Thanks, your post left room for some ambiguity, which I just wanted to clear up, for my own understanding.
People are people, and just like some naturally fair haired people frazzle and burn in the sum, some, albeit a smaller number will tan beautifully and compound their gorgeousness.
In my view it is important that we understand at the outset of any regime that just because Janet or John round the corner achieved X or Y, it doesn't necessarily mean we will too - even family members adopting the same approach can vastly differ.
Interestingly, I attended a health even last week and for the first time, ever (I've done a few), there were several people rocking up to the stand I was on declaring they had reversed or put their T2 into remission. I was astonished, but to be honest, love him or loath them, people like Michael Mosely getting onto mainstream TV and radio talking about it is making a difference.
That said, when I enquired how those claiming remission/reversal (and I didn't ask them to define it for themselves), their approaches were very varied, and although loosely carbs were reduced, not, in their cases, as much as is often stated here.
These are interesting times in the world of diabetes, and in my opinion there's never been a better time to be diagnosed than now - if one had to be diagnosed at all
It's interesting that we are all so different and that people are finding out what really works for them.
I have a friend who is T2 and has come off insulin by going vegan. She hasn't even gone low carb vegan but has gone very high carb vegan and very restricted calories. Basically she eats everything I don't but not very much of it and her blood sugars are in the 4s for a lot of the day. It's very puzzling but it definitely works for her. She also runs for miles. I knew I had to go down the low carb route because it was a way of eating that I like and could stick to - and there was no way l was going to take up running.
It is great that people are going into remission or reversing diabetes now. My medical records state that I am in remission. I actually don't class myself as in remission. I prefer to think of myself as diet controlled because that, to me, is very clearly what I am. Maybe in the future - when I can eat 50g of carbs and not spike my BS and stay high for hours afterwards I will call myself in remission. I have a horrible feeling that this may be years away for me - if ever.
I shouldn't complain though as I feel loads better now than when I was injecting and I do really love the huge range of food I can eat.